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W. Y. A. BOARDMAN.

" Wick Raiser.

` @mungitura sttwtffir.

IMPRCVENBNT IN wICII INSERTER ron LAMPS. y

WILLIAM Y, A. .BOARDMAN or Nnw HAVEN,` CONNECTICUT.

Letters .Patent lVVo 60,130, dated December 4, 1866. i

Y' A "SPECIFICATION. To ALL WIICM IT MAY CCNCERM;

vBe it known that I,WILLIAM Y. AIBOARDMAN, of New Haven, in the countyof New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new device forInserting Wicks in Lamps; and I do hereby declare. the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the lettersofreferenceimarked thereon,I to

be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,' and which saiddrawings constitute partIof this specication, I

and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view.

Figure 2, an edge view.

Figure 3, a section on line :c zu; and, in

Figure 4, its operation, y 4 i i i I I My invention relates to animprovement-to facilitate the insertion of the wick through the tubes oflamps, designed more particularly for kerosene lamps, but equallyapplicable to all lampsusing Ia. .flat 6r similar wick.

The inconveniences which attend the "Introduction of the wick into thetube are too well known to require speci-` fication; by my inventionthese difficulties are entirely overcome, and in' order that' others maybe enabled to construct and' use my improvement, I will proceed -todescribe the same,'as illustrated in the accompanyingl drawin gs.` v

From a piece of sheet steel or other suitable metal I cut to the formshown in g. 1, of the proper width to I permit it to pass through theAtube of the lamp, the lower end pierced as at A, or other device bywhich the instrument I may behung up or otherwise disposed of when noti'u use. The upper end I,slit into five parts, (more or`less,)` `a andd,two of the parts co1 responding t'o the feed-wheels of the wick-tubetwo of these parts, d, `I bend out-4 ward' in one direction, the otherparts, a, in the opposite direction; that is, 'alternate parts inItheIsame direction; I These several parts, or fingers, as they may becalled, are pointed, and the points turned inward, `as seen ing.;

` 2, and thus formed, possess considerable amount of elasticity. Inorder to strengthen the fingers, and the body i or handle, I corrugatethe body, as denoted in iig. 3, the corrugation extending up through thecorresponding y i n fingers, d, the other ngers curved iuIlikemannen Ifformed of steel the 'fingers should loe/tempered, if of other material'it should betreated with a like object, according to its nature; myinstrument is then ready' for use, which is as seen in iig. 4. When itis desired to insert the wick` in the tube, pass the lower end or handleof the` instrument through the tube, either from the upper end down, orvice versa, and before the pointsLare closed by passing into thctube, asdenoted in iig. 4, place the end of the wick within the' grasp of theseveral liingers,

then draw the instrument, with the wick securely held, through the tube,as seen in fighi, taking care 1in the insertion of the instrument-thatthe two spaces correspond to the two wheels in the tube; `By thisarrangement not the slightest diiiiculty is found in the insertion ofthe wick.

Havin g therefore thus fully described my Inventlon, what I claim asnewand useful,` and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isy Theherein-described instrument for inserting wicks in lamp-tubes as a newarticle of manufacture.

l V WM. Y.` A. BOARDMAN,` i Witnesses: i I I I `Jenn E. EARLE,

ALTsIn J. TIBBrrs.

